MTrackJ

A Java Program for Manual Object Tracking

MTrackJ

General Description

MTrackJ is an ImageJ plugin to facilitate manual tracking of moving objects in image sequences and the measurement of basic statistics of traveled distances and velocities. It can handle 2D as well as (multispectral) 3D image sequences (displayed as HyperStacks or using Image5D) of any type supported by ImageJ.

Download and Installation

The plugin can be installed by downloading the following two files to the plugins folder of ImageJ:

> MTrackJ_.jar (version 1.3.0)
> imagescience.jar (version 2.3.0)

By downloading any of the above, you indicate your agreement with the copyright notice and disclaimer below.

The first file contains the actual plugin classes while the latter is a library of support classes (you can download its API if you are interested in using its functionality also for other purposes).

This version requires at least Java 1.5 and ImageJ 1.41g. The program was tested and found to run properly on Windows XP (Service Pack 3). I haven't had the possibility yet to test it on other platforms so I don't guarantee anything there.

The source code of MTrackJ is not available.

A description of the toolbar components can be found in the online manual.

Check out the release notes for information on updates.

Copyright Notice and Disclaimer

Permission to copy and use the software and accompanying documentation provided on these webpages for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies. The copyright holder is free to make upgraded or improved versions of the software available for a fee or commercially only.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF HE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS". THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS.

Acknowledgments

MTrackJ was developed at the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam of the Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, when I was working with colleagues on evaluating the performance of existing and newly developed tracking algorithms compared to manual tracking by human observers. Writing a general purpose program such as MTrackJ is not completely trivial. Therefore, if you publish results that are based on it, I expect you to acknowledge me. This will also help making other people aware of the tool. Thanks in advance.

Last update on December 3, 2008.